copyholder
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And if a precedent is asked for the particular remedy proposed, the Acts enabling any copyholder to enfranchise his holding should be consulted.
From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Alfred Farthing Robbins
A copyholder without legal remedy may seem little better than a tenant in mere villenage, except in name.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
He must, I think, himself have been a copyholder in his day, so feelingly does he deal with the detriments of a champion-holding.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Henry Hewlett
The head proofreader in turn gives the proof to an assistant and the manuscript to a copyholder, who reads the story to the assistant for the detection of typographical errors.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer
The last was practically the counterpart of the mediæval English copyholder.
From German Culture Past and Present by Ernest Belfort Bax
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